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Ep. 171: Is Slow Productivity the Solution to Burnout?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Is the Modern Anti Productivity Movement Over?
In 20 20, i wrote an essay about the term productivity. Do we need something new? And it led to a really heated discussion and two subsequent follow up posts. Slow productivity is meant as a response to this question of what shall we do in the face of being exhausted by all that we have to do? I went back and did some work trying to understand the rhythms ofactivity of our paleolithic ancestors. Our best guess at what activity was like for the bulk of our species existence is you would be doing skilled and important work basically every day.
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